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By AFP &nbspApril 6, 2018 | 08:42 am GMT+7 Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who is on trial for the killing of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, is escorted as she leaves at the Department of Chemistry in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 9, 2017. Photo by Reuters/Lai Seng Sin Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah are on trial over the Cold War-style killing of Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur more than a year ago. The laboratory that tested the nerve agent allegedly used to assassinate the North Korean leader's half-brother was not on the list of centres approved by the global chemical weapons watchdog, a Malaysian court heard Thursday. Two women, Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong and Indonesian Siti Aisyah, are on trial over the Cold War-style killing of Mr Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb 13 last year. Defense lawyers have argued that the women were recruited to take part in … [Read more...] about Defense in Kim Jong Nam trial casts doubt on poison test lab

Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the nationality of the woman detained by Malaysian police for the alleged murder of the half-brother of North Korea's leader. Representatives from Vietnam's embassy in Kuala Lumpur met with Doan Thi Huong, 28, and confirmed she is in good health, according to a statement issued Saturday. Officials further affirmed that Huong is from the northern province of Nam Dinh, confirming statements issued by Malaysian police and the international press over the past week. Embassy officials said Huong claimed to have been duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank. Kim Jong-nam was killed using the highly toxic liquid nerve agent VX, the Guardian quoted Malaysian police as saying Friday. One of the two women suspected of involvement in the poisoning vomited in police custody allegedly as a result of exposure to VX, a substance developed for chemical warfare, the Guardian quoted Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar as saying. CCTV … [Read more...] about Vietnam confirms citizenship of suspect in Kim Jong Nam murder

More than a month after Kim Jong-Nam was murdered in Kuala Lumpur, experts are struggling to make sense of Malaysia's findings that the lethal nerve agent VX was used to kill him without apparent harm to anyone else. Malaysian police have released virtually no forensic evidence connected to the high-profile assassination of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un. Scientists are confounded by how VX -- a toxin so deadly it is classed as a weapon of mass destruction by the UN -- was deployed in an international airport without causing serious injury to the assailants, first responder medics or other travellers. "We are building speculation upon speculation" to explain what happened, said Jean-Pascal Zanders, an expert on disarmament who focuses on chemical and biological weapons. Airport CCTV footage on February 13 shows two women approaching the 45-year-old victim and apparently rubbing his face with a cloth. He died minutes later, according to police, who … [Read more...] about The toxic mystery behind Kim Jong-Nam’s assassination

Six weeks after the airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, Malaysia on Tuesday said it was still waiting for family to claim the body, denying rumors it had been sent back to Pyongyang. The half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un was poisoned with the lethal nerve agent VX in a brazen Cold War-style assassination on February 13 in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. "There have been a lot of rumors that the body was cremated but we would not do this without the responsible parties giving us directives or agreement," Health Minister S. Subramaniam told reporters. In recent days, there has been some speculation that Kuala Lumpur had done a deal with Pyongyang to send the body to North Korea, in exchange for the return of nine Malaysians being prevented from leaving by Kim Jong-Un's regime. Other reports had suggested the corpse would be transported to Macau, where Kim had been living with his family. "The body is still in the morgue at Hospital Kuala Lumpur," Subramaniam … [Read more...] about Malaysia says Kim Jong-Nam’s body still in KL morgue

The body of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was embalmed this week in Kuala Lumpur, with no family member coming forward to claim the remains and as a diplomatic spat with Pyongyang drags on. It's been over a month since Kim Jong Nam was murdered on Feb. 13, when Malaysian police say two women smeared super toxic VX nerve agent on his face at the budget terminal of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Kim died within 20 minutes of the attack, before reaching the hospital. Since then, his body has been at a Kuala Lumpur morgue, and police say they will only hand it over to his next of kin. No one so far has come forward to claim the body, Malaysian authorities have said. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told reporters outside parliament on Tuesday the body has been embalmed so it can be preserved longer. "It's an effort to preserve the body, because if it is kept in the mortuary it might decompose so we did this to preserve the body," Zahid said. … [Read more...] about Malaysia embalms Kim Jong Nam’s body, awaiting next of kin